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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1887
Page
7
A Chicago style column advises reusing old dresses by combining fabrics and colors to create new outfits. It describes simple seaside and ballroom looks, wedding gowns with satin and faille, and the clever jacket basque trend to extend wearability.
Col Dayton recalls Gen Sickles badly wounded after Gettysburg being carried to a private Washington house. The next morning Lincoln and his son Tad visited, Lincoln tearfully prayed for his friends, and flowers from the White House conservatory were sent to Sickles daily.
A ten acre tract taxed at 1000 dollars for years. After a sale of one acre for 1000 dollars the next year the assessor valued the sold acre at 1000 and the remaining nine acres at 900, arguing the nine acres diminished by one tenth should drop by one tenth. This case reflects disputed valuation standards.
The lesson notes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a long standing liver corrective and blood purifier used as a household remedy for the poor and as a consultant to the rich. It is extolled for chronic diseases including malarial poisoning respiratory and digestive ailments and liver disease.
A travel note from Berlin describes strict streetcar seating limits and an evening key service where a city watcher locks doors, while a later digression touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a cure-all. It references 18th century U S Treasury finances in a fragmentary aside.
A collage of promotional blurbs and jokes: medical cures from the World's Dispensary Medical Association, a beef tonic named MensmMAn's Pepronized Beer Tonic, a ghost joke between Pogkins and Snippit, Burlington Route ticket sales for Northwest and West destinations, references to Tansill's lunch cigar, horse care products by Dexter Curtis, and notes from Our Dumb Animals.
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